The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War

Edited by Seth Lazar and Helen Frowe

Description

Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest, among both philosophers, legal scholars, and military experts, on the ethics of war. Due in part due to post 9/11 events, this resurgence is also due to a growing theoretical sophistication among scholars in this area. Recently there has been very influential work published on the justificaton of killing in self-defense and war, and the topic of the ethics of war is now more important than ever as a discrete field.

The 28 commissioned chapters in this Handbook will present a comprehensive overview of the field as well as make significant and novel contributions, and collectively they will set the terms of the debate for the next decade. Lazar and Frowe will invite the leading scholars in the field to write on topics that are new to them, making the volume a compilation of fresh ideas rather than a rehash of earlier work. The volume will be dicided into five sections: Method, History, Resort, Conduct, and Aftermath. The contributors will be a mix of junior and senior figures, and will include well known scholars like Michael Walzer, Jeff McMahan, and David Rodin.

The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War

Edited by Seth Lazar and Helen Frowe

Table of Contents

Part I: Method1.Method in the Morality of War Seth Lazar 2.The Just War Framework Helen Frowe 3. Historiography of Just War Theory Gregory Reichberg 4.Deep Morality and the Laws of War Jeremy Waldron

Part II: History5. The Ethics of War up to Thomas Aquinas Rory Cox 6. Late Scholastic Just War Theory Daniel Schwartz7.Early Modern Sources of the Regular War Tradition Pablo Kalmanovitz

Part III: Resort8. A Richer Jus ad Bellum Allen Buchanan9. Knowing When Not to Fight David Luban 10. National Defence and Political Independence David Mapel 11. Humanitarian Intervention and the Modern State System Patrick Emerton Toby Handfield 12. Territorial Rights and National Defence Anna Stilz 13. Last Resort and Proportionality Henry Shue14. Pacifism Cheyney Ryan 15. Legitimate Authority in War Yitzhak Benbaji 16. Civil War and Revolution Jonathan Parry

The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War

Edited by Seth Lazar and Helen Frowe

Author Information

Helen Frowe is Professor of Practical Philosophy and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Stockholm University, where she directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace.

Contributors:

Christian Barry, Director of the Centre for Moral, Social, and Political TheorySchool of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University

Saba Bazargan, Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego

Yitzhak Benbaji is a Professor of Philosophy at Tel-Aviv University, Israel

Allen Buchanan is James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Law at Duke University, where he is also an Investigator at the Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy.

Lars Christie, University of Oslo

Rory Cox, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK

Patrick Emerton, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia

CécileFabre, Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, UK

Helen Frowe is Professor in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University. She is also a Wallenberg Academy Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy and directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace.

Jens David Ohlin is a Professor at Cornell Law School, specializing in international law, criminal law, and the laws of war.

Jonathan Parry, The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, Stockholm University, Sweden

Gregory M. Reichberg is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo. He heads the Oslo-based Research School on Peace and Conflict (a consortium that offers doctoral courses) and is an associate editor of the Journal of Military Ethics.

Cheyney Ryan is Director of Human Rights Programs for the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (ELAC), co-chair of the Oxford Consortium on Human Rights, and a member of Merton College at University of Oxford.

Daniel Schwartz, Department of Political Science and Department of International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Henry Shue is Senior Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, and Fellow, Merton College. He was a founding member, and later Director, of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland (1976-87) and was then the first Director of the Program on Ethics and Public Life at Cornell University (1987-2002).

Daniel Statman, University of Haifa, Israel

Anna Stilz is Associate Professor of Politics at Princeton University

Victor Tadros, University of Warwick, UK

Suzanne Uniacke is Director of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University, Canberra.

Jeremy Waldron teaches legal and political philosophy at New York University School of Law